YAGUCHI Etsuko, a researcher on lifelong learning, explains how Today we are all well acquainted with the term “life-long learning.” We are able to get an education at school but we also have wide range of options for continuing to learn in environments that suit our in-dividual interests, regardless of gender or age. It is no longer well known but it was actually Enryō, more than one hundred years ago, who first proposed implementing the con-cept of lifelong learning in Japan (or “social education” as it was called then). On his second trip around the world Enryō experienced Sunday school in the English village of Burley and became convinced that, “In Japan, schooling is the end, but in England there is a place for education from birth to death.” Thus, after returning home he took on the challenge of promoting life-long learning around the country through what he called the “Morality Church.” Sunday schools became popular in Britain. there are records suggesting they were first implemented in erally believed to have developed as a result of the need for basic education in areas experiencing increased population due to the industrial revolution, in the form of places for educating VII. The Era of Nationwide Lecture Tours and the Philosophy Shrine Life-long Learning and the “Morality Church” Movement There are several theories on the origins of Sunday schools, but West Wales at the end of the seventeenth century. They are gen-156
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